Film for motion-pictures and method of making the same.



J. E.TH ORNT ON.

FILM FOR MOTION PICTURESAN D METHO D 0F MAKINIS THE SAME.

H Patented Jan'.16,1917.

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To all whom it may concern Be. it known that 1, JOHN EDWARD THORN- TON, a British subject, residing at West Hampstead, London, England, ha e invented certain new and useful Improvements' in Films for Motion-Pictures and Methods of Making the Same, of which the following is a specification.

' ored picture to print or obtain all the colors This invention relates to the production of film for colored cinematograph or motion pictures, and is designed to provide a film in the form of'a single strip, in which the successive pictures follow each other in direct sequence-and from which the pictures will be projected in the colors of nature without the use of color screens. c

It has been proposed in producing a col from a single ordinary original negative'on a color sensitive plate by screening with a light filter the negative or positive during jprinting.

This invention consists inconstructing a film of'complete color pictures from two or more section picture negativesby firstprinting a film from one section picture negative, and then after being developed, colored and dried, ire-coating and re-sensitizing the film and printing thereon from another section picture-negative, and-so on to'produce the complete color picture film; Sucha film will possess the following advantages over other motion picture color film systems in which two or more films are employed (l) The film is a single strip of standard width and will therefore fit the regular projecting apparatus used for monochrome lms. (2.) The, pictures follow in direct sequence, instead .of in alternate sequence as in another well-known system. Therefore it only uses half-the amount of film that the former processuses, and can be projected at the same speed as monochrome film, instead of requiring double speed, as

' that does.

(4.) It is also more transparentbecause,

the image itself is a colored one, instead of the usual black silver image plus color filters.

sections of the negative.

Divided and this application filed July 3,

The invention will be an described with reference to the accompanying draw.

Specification of Letters Patent. yatent gd ,1! an, 116 1199311 T5,,

original application filed November 26,1912, Serial No. 733.633.

1915. Serial No. 38,016.

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' celluloid film before being printed from any of the. sections of the negative. Fig. 3 shows a complete color picture film having been sensitized and developed three times after having been printed from each of the three An original negative is taken or prepared on a film of double or triple width, by a camera having two or three lensessideby side, fitted with suitable means for adjusts ing their optical axis to project the sepa rate section pictures side by side on to the lm, each lens being provided with adifferent color sc eenL Such a negative however is not new, and positives have been obtained therefrom of the same width from which the pictures havebeen projected therefrom by double or treble lenses and superimposed .with the color section pictures in alternate sequence. Such a negative is not new and to upon thescreen to give the complete {110- I positives have been obtained therefrom from which the pictures have been, pro-' jected in rapid succession' I The improved mulfli-color film ,is constructed or built up by printing from one color section of the negative upon the sensitized celluloid strip, and after developing and drying, re-coating and re-sensitizin the film, printing over the first printing rom another section of the negative, and so again for the third. The single sensitized strip or film-D is printed under the first section a of the negative A, then developed, washed dyed, and dried as at al' Fig. 3. This colorginay be red for example. The film or strip Dis then sensitized a second time, printed from the second section a of ltd the negative A, developed, washed, dyed,

and dried as at d Fig. 3. This color may be green. The strip .or film l). is finally sensitized a third time, printed from the third s'ectiona of the negative A developed, washed, dyed, and dried, as-at dXFig. 3.. This color may be violet. The result is the 'bichromated gelatin and pigments.

complete color picture film. When the negative has the color section pictures in walternate sequence the strip or film D is -"first printed from the pictures representing may be used thatwill not mix with or contaminate the layers and dyes beneath, examplesof-which are known to dye experts. Finally the complete film may be protected by a layer of suitable waterproof varnish.

Any well known type of sensitive surface may be applied to the film or strip D which will yield prints d (Z d? in different colors such as (A) Bichromated gelatin and mordanted dyes. (B) Bichromated gelatin and insoluble pigment. (C) Bichromated gelatin, glue, gum, albumen, or other colloid and soluble pigments such as water colors, or dyes if preferred. (D) Adhefgp Silver images in gelatin or the like, afterward converted into colored images by treatment with any chemicals that will give the complementaryor substantially complementary colors by conversion or toning; or by substitution, such as replacing the silver with a dye. These may be applied in any convenient or well known manner as more fully set out in my application SerialNo. 733633, filed November 26, 1912, of which the present application is a division.

Accurate registration of the negatives is secured by perforating simultaneously the three sections a, a a, of the negative before'printing, with perforations a, Whether the negative A be slit into three or used in one triple strip. The film or strip D is also correspondingly perforated with perforations (Z before printing. The perforations in both films are secured in coincident positions by seriesof pegs or teeth on the printing apparatus, which engage both together and prevent-shifting or creeping;

What I claim as my invention and desire to protect. by Letters Patent is 1. The method of producing films for motion or cinematograph pictures which consists in preparing simultaneously-upon anegative a plurality of section color pictures, printing a film strip from one of such section picture negatives in its correct color, re-coating and re-sensitizing the film and again printing from another of these negatives in another color superimposed upon the first printed picture and so on toform a complete m'ulti-eolor picture substantially as described. I

2. The hereindescribed improve.ne11t in the art of producing films for motion or cinematograph pictures by the use of: a

negative with two or more section color pictures, which comprises printing a film strip from one of these color sections in its correct colonic-coating and rel-sensitizing the film, and again printing from another of e 1 these color sectlons in another color, and so on to 'form a complete II'lI lltl-COlOl picture substantially as described. 1

3. A multi-color single ,width continuous film tape for m'oving or ciiiematograph pictures, comprising a transparent base having thereon a series of complete photographic pictures in natural colors, -"each picture embodying a plurality of color section photographs in different colorlayers accurately registered and superimposed, substantially as described. 1

4. A multi-color single width continuous film tape for moving orcinematograph pictures, comprising a transparent base having thereon a series of complete photographic pictures in natural colors, each p1cture comprising a plurality of section photographs in different colors and in different color layers in accurately registered and superimposed relation, substantially as described.

5. A complete multi-color single width film for cinematograph or motion pictures, comprising a transparent base having thereon a series of complete photographic pictures, each picture embodying superimposed color section photographs in different colors and in different layers, substantially as described.

6. A complete multi-color single width film for cinematograph or motion pictures. comprising a transparent base having thereon a plurality of superimposed layers of colorsection photographs in different colors, the color section photographs of the different layers being in register.

7. A multi-color single width continuous film tape for moving cinematograph pictures, comprising a transparent base, a plurality of superimposed layers of exposed emulsion thereon, each layer containing a picture in substantially complementary colors and the whole comprising a complete picturein natural colors, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of a subscribing witness.

JOHN EDWARD THORNTON. Witness:

J. OWDEN OBRIEN. 

